Political Decisiveness Q&A

As a spur of the moment decision, I decided on August the 17th 2020, to go around Grass lawn park and ask a bunch of questions to strangers. All the questions were designed to make the strangers think. Regardless of what they got out of it. It made me realize how much unknown confidence I had with talking with random strangers.

The first day was at Grass Lawn park and it was a relatively uncrowded day. The second day was at Bellevue Downtown park and it was a pretty crowded day, but I was more selective with the people I walked up to. Making sure not to intrude too much like I might have on the first to get more answers. With each encounter I made sure to inform them of what I was doing and what my intentions were. Then swiftly going into a small ice breaker and conversation as to not be super direct, so the answers were a bit more open and honest. The second day I also added a question in addition to the 2 base questions and printed out a form I made to make the job easier. The new question was added mainly because the tonal shift from the first question to the last was a bit too thought provoking and I wanted it to be a little smoother. The answers where the second question is black and NOT ANSWERED was the first day at Grass Lawn park.

I was rather impressed with the amount of people that had other friends with different view points. The more impressive thing to me was in the second question at Bellevue Downtown park was how many people had their mind changed on something they once held close. The thing I'm most impressed about was how similar most people's answers were. Some were definitely more lax or more focal, yet all of them never said anything about demonizing or saying they were wrong or anything really. Overall this was an extremely fun experiment and it let me get concrete evidence on what people actually think around my neighbor hood.